Pocket savings-bank.



w. P. SCULLY.

POCKET SAVINGS BANK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-3.19M.

1,21 1,848. Patented Jan. 2,1917.

WALTER 5P. SCULLY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 G. FELSENTHAL 82; SONS, A FIRM COMPOSED OF G. FELSENTHAL, L. J. FELSENTHAL, AND I. G. FELSENTHAL, ALL

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

POCKET SAVINGS-BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 191?.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. SCULLY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Savings-Banks, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to coin receptacles and more particularly to those which are intended for the reception of personal savings and are constructed to permit of their 1 being opened only by a specially formed instrument. Coin receptacles of this form are used by banking institutions for distribution among their customers, the opening instrument being retained by the institution with a View to preventing its use except when the receptacle is brought to the institution for the deposit of its contents. As these receptacles are usually intended for the reception of small coins and for free distribution, it is important that they be of simple and inexpensive construction while still presenting an attractive appearance and a reasonable safeguard against unauthorized opening.

The invention accordingly contemplates a coin receptacle having these requisites and of such construction that it may be made of small size and of a convenient shape to be carried in the ocket.

The object of the invention is to simplify and improve the construction of coin receptacles of the kind described.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 s a perspective view s owing a pocket savings bank embodyin the features of improvement provided by the invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the cover removed, Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the inside of the cover, Fig. 4 is a side view of the opening instrument partly in section, Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the savings bank with the cover in place, and Fig. 6 is a plan view showing a form of sheet metal blank which ma be used for the formation of one of the 10c g elements.

The improved pocket savings bank is convenientl made in the form of a disk with slightly owed sides 10 and 11 and a narrow rim 12. The rim 12 is preferably formed from a continuous ring of. sheet metal and is provided with a coin slot 13. One of the sides, as 11, is permanently secured to the adjacent edge of the rim 12 and may be regarded as constituting the bottom of the receptacle. The other side, as 10, is detachably secured to the rim and constitutes a removable cover. As shown, one of the edges of the rim 12 is flanged outwardly, as indicated at 14, while the other edge of the rim is provided with an instanding flange 15. 4 p

The bottom 11 of the receptacle is shown as comprising a fiat inner wall plate 16 and a bowed outer wall plate 17, the latter being preferably covered upon the outside with an ornamental layer 18 of celluloid or similar material in a well known manner. The inner wall plate 16 is conveniently made of the proper size to rest against the outstanding flange 14 at the adjacent edge of the rim 12, while the outer wall plate 17 has a rolled edge'19, and this rolled edge fits over the outstanding flange 14 of the rim and serves for permanently connecting all of the parts of the bottom 11 with the rim. If desired, a leaf spring 20 may be fixed in a socket 21 formed 1n the inner wall 16 of the bottom 11 to extend in front of the coin slot 13 for arding same against the discharge of coms.

The cover 10 comprises an inner flat plate 22 and an outer bowed plate 23, the latter having a rolled edge 24 which fits over the edge of the plate 22 for permanently connecting said two plates. Thebowed plate 23 may also be covered upon the outside with an ornamental layer 25 of celluloid or similar material, thereb giving the two sides of the box substantia y the same appearance when the cover is closed.

The device for locking the cover 10 in place comprises an inwardly facing stud 26 and aspring socket 27. One of these parts, as the stud 26, is carried by the cover 10, in which case the spring socket 27 is carried by the bottom 11. As shown, the stud 26 is centrally fixed upon the inner plate 22 of the cover 10 and has a rounded head 28 beneath which is formed an annular groove or channel 29. The spring socket 27 is convenientlyformed from a stiff metal blank 30 having a plurality of radial arms, as 31, 32 and 33. These arms are folded upwardly and inwardly for engagement of the ends of the arms with the annular groove 29 of the stud 26 when the head 28 of the stud has been forcedbetween them by pressure upon the outside of the cover 10. As shown, the inner wall plate 16 of the bottom 11 is centrally provided with an-irregular opening 34 adapted to permit the projection of the arms, as 31, 32 and 33 of the socket 27 through said plate, while that part of the socket which comprises the central portion of the blank 30 is held between the two Wall plates 16 and 17.

For opening the receptacle, the central portion of the blank 30 and the outer wall 17 of the bottom 11 have registering apertures 35 and 36 for the introduction of an instrument by which pressure may be exerted upon the inner end of the stud 26. As shown, the opening instrument takes the form of a screw threaded stem 37. This stem may have a cross piece 38 applied thereto at one end, to facilitate the rotation of the stem while the inner end of the stem is preferably socketed, as at 39, for engagement with the rounded head 28 of the stud 2(3. The opening 36 in the wall plate 17 is accordingly of such size as to loosely receive the threaded stem 37 while the opening 35 in the central portion of the blank 30 is threaded for cooperation with said stem. To permit the formation of an eiiicient screw thread upon the wall of the aperture 35, the central portion of the blank 30 is preferably flanged inwardly about the opening, as indicated at 40, Fig. 5.

The invention provides a pocket savings bank which may be made of a convenient size and shape and of an attractive appearance at a low cost while still providing a reasonable safeguard against being opened except by the use of a particular opening instrument. Furthermore, the construction permits of the receptacle being opened very readily when the proper instrument is used and as this is eli'ected without substantial wear or distortion of any of the parts, the device is durable and may be opened and closed repeatedly.

I claim as my invention,

1. In a pocket savings bank, the combination with a box. and its cover, of a headed stud projecting centrally inward from one of such parts, and a spring socket centrally mounted upon the inside of the other of said parts for receiving and yieldingly retaining the head of the stud in the closed position of the cover.

2. In a pocket savings bank, the combi nation with a box and its cover, one of said parts being centrally apertured, of a headed stud projecting inwardly from the other of said parts, a spring socket centrally mounted upon the inside of the apertured part for receiving the head of the stud in the closed position of the cover, the said spring socket having at its inner end a threaded aperture which registers with the aperture of the part upon which the socket is mounted, and an opening instrument comprising a screwthreaded stem adapted for threaded engagement with the said inner end of the socket to exert outward pressure upon the head of the stud when introduced through the aperture of the part upon which the socket is mounted,

3. In a pocket savings bank, in combination, a box having a double floor, both floors of the box being centrally apertured, a cover for the box, a headed stud carried by the cover and projecting centrally inward therefrom, a spring socket for receiving the head of the stud in the closed position of the cover, said socket comprising a spring metal plate having a central screw-threaded aperture and a plurality of radial arms folded upwardly and inwardly, the body of the plate being located between the two floors of the box with its screw-threaded aperture registering with the apertures of said floors and with the said arms of the plate projecting into the box chamber through the inner floor of the box, and an opening instrument comprising a. screw-threaded stem adapted to loosely pass through the apertures of both floors of the box and to have threaded engagement with the screw-threaded aperture of the said socket plate for exerting outward pressure upon the head of the said stud- 4. In a pocket savings bank, the combination with a box and its cover, one of said parts being centrally apertured, of a headed stud projecting inwardly from the center of the other of the said parts, and a spring socket centrally mounted upon the inside of the apertured part for receiving and yieldingly retaining the head of the stud in the closed position of the cover, the said spring socket being open at its inner end to provide access to the end of the said stud through the aperture of the part upon which the socket is mounted.

WALTER P. SCULLY. 

